Jerry Sandusky

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News about Jerry Sandusky, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Chronology of Coverage

Jan. 17, 2015

Reputation of former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno is experiencing revival almost three years after his death and following public disgrace he suffered after it was revealed that his longtime assistant coach Jerry Sandusky sexually molested boys; NCAA agrees to restore 111 victories that were invalidated after scandal, restoring Paterno's record as major-college football coach with highest number of victories. MORE

Dec. 2, 2014

Joe Nocera Op-Ed column revisits child sexual abuse scandal at Penn State, observing disclosed emails show that the NCAA was guilty of overreach when it imposed harsh penalties; holds because organization blamed abuse on college's 'football culture,' it created false sense of victimhood in Penn State community and distracted from the true victims of sexual abuse; calls incident yet another example of the NCAA's poor and often hypocritical oversight. MORE

Jul. 20, 2014

Former Pennsylvania State University president Graham B Spanier still awaits a trial, more than 20 months after the state charged him with eight criminal counts related to child sex abuse scandal of Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky; case against Spanier is at best problematic, at worst fatally flawed. MORE

Jul. 18, 2014

Jerry Sandusky’s adopted son Matthew says in television interview that his father’s sexual abuse of him had included oral sex, more serious allegation than he made to detectives two years earlier. MORE

Jun. 24, 2014

Inquiry by Pennsylvania attorney general's office finds that Gov Tom Corbett may have taken longer than he should have to investigate claims of sexual abuse by former Penn State football assistant Jerry Sandusky, but there is no evidence that he tried to slow the case for political purposes. MORE

Jan. 27, 2014

Federal Education Department is looking into Penn State’s handling of sexual harassment and sexual assault complaints to see if it responded appropriately to reports of abuse in the years connected to the Jerry Sandusky child sexual abuse scandal. MORE

Dec. 20, 2013

Editorial warns cover-up of scandal involving former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky will not be addressed until Pennsylvania's Legislature passes a bill forcing the prompt reporting of suspected child abuse; acknowledges the Legislature has begun enacting a raft of reform bills that aim to strengthen child abuse laws in the state already. MORE

Oct. 29, 2013

Penn State agrees to pay $59.7 million to 26 sexual abuse victims of the former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky in exchange for an end to their claims against the university. MORE

Sep. 17, 2013

Current and former faculty, alumni and fans are upset about how the child abuse scandal involving Jerry Sandusky has come to define Penn State unfairly; Maribeth Schmidt, leader of alumni group hoping to rid the university of its bad image, says that several missteps have been made in the case, leading to unfair judgment. MORE

Aug. 25, 2013

Jul. 30, 2013

Former Penn State assistant football coach Mike McQueary testifies in hearing for three former officials accused in covering up Jerry Sandusky's crimes, saying that longtime coach Joe Paterno told him the university mishandled its response to the child sexual abuse scandal. MORE

Jul. 19, 2013

Penn State’s board of trustees authorizes university to spend about $60 million to settle most of roughly 30 outstanding claims by victims in the Jerry Sandusky child sexual abuse case. MORE

Jul. 13, 2013

Penn State discloses that it has tentative agreements with some of the young men who say they were sexually abused by former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, which could cost university millions in payouts; other college football items noted. MORE

Jun. 7, 2013

Federal judge throws out antitrust lawsuit by Pennsylvania Gov Tom Corbett against the NCAA over penalties against Penn State related to Jerry Sandusky. MORE

May. 30, 2013

Estate of former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno and several university trustees and former players reportedly plan to sue the NCAA over the penalties levied against the university in Jerry Sandusky child sexual abuse scandal. MORE

Feb. 21, 2013

NCAA sues Pennsylvania Gov Tom Corbett over new law designed to ensure that $60 million fine paid by Penn State over the Jerry Sandusky sexual assault scandal remains in the state. MORE

Feb. 11, 2013

Family of former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno issues its own review, challenging claims that he helped conceal child sex abuse allegations against Jerry Sandusky. MORE

Feb. 1, 2013

Pennsylvania’s new Atty Gen Kathleen Kane is set to name special prosecutor to investigate Gov Tom Corbett’s handling of Penn State child sexual abuse case, specifically why nearly three years elapsed before criminal charges were brought; suggests that Corbett, when he was attorney general, slow-walked investigation of assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky. MORE

Jan. 3, 2013

Pennsylvania Gov Thomas W Corbett initiates lawsuit against the NCAA, alleging that penalties it imposed against Penn State for its child sexual abuse scandal violated federal antitrust laws. MORE

Jan. 2, 2013

Pennsylvania Gov Tom Corbett plans to sue the NCAA over recent sanctions imposed against Penn State in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky child sexual abuse scandal, including $60 million fine that would be used nationally to finance child abuse prevention grants. MORE

Nov. 2, 2012

Former Penn State president Graham B Spanier, as well as university officials Gary Schultz and Tim Curley, are charged in Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse case; face charges that include perjury, obstruction of justice, endangering the welfare of children and criminal conspiracy for their handling of allegations against Sandusky. MORE

Nov. 1, 2012

Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky is sent to serve his child molesting prison sentence at Greene State Prison, institution that includes most of Pennsylvania’s death row inmates; officials say he will be housed in protective custody. MORE

Oct. 26, 2012

Penn State Prof Jonathan Marks uses Jerry Sandusky sexual abuse scandal as point of discussion in his ethics class. MORE

Oct. 13, 2012

Letter from Rodney Erickson, president, Pennsylvania State University, takes issue with Oct 9 editorial on the sentencing of former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky. MORE

Oct. 10, 2012

Former Pennsylvania State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky is sentenced to 30 to 60 years in prison for sexually abusing 10 boys; sentence amounts to life for the 68-year-old, in a case that roiled the university community. MORE

Oct. 10, 2012

Editorial welcomes sentencing of former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky, who will spend 30 to 60 years in prison on 45 convictions of raping, abusing and assaulting 10 boys over many years; cautions that it is not the end of the case, as two other university officials are facing criminal charges, and the university still must address the failure of leadership and management the case revealed. MORE

Oct. 7, 2012

Several jurors who convicted former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky of molesting boys over a period of years say he should be sent to prison for life. MORE

Sep. 18, 2012

Sentencing date is set for former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, who has been convicted on 45 counts of sexual abuse involving 10 boys. MORE

Aug. 26, 2012

Young man known as Victim 1 in the trail of Jerry Sandusky has filed lawsuit against Penn State claiming that university officials made deliberate decisions not to report Sandusky to authorities. MORE

Aug. 15, 2012

Middle States Commission on Higher Education warns Pennsylvania State University its accreditation is in jeopardy unless it corrects conditions that contributed to sexual abuse of children by former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky. MORE

Jul. 30, 2012

Penn State’s president, Rodney Erickson, says the university is adequately covered to handle lawsuits stemming from the child sexual abuse scandal. MORE

Jul. 27, 2012

Man comes forward publicly to claim he is the boy who was sexually assaulted in the Penn State locker-room showers by Jerry Sandusky, and is threatening to sue the university; the boy's identity has been one of the biggest mysteries of the scandal for months; other football news noted. MORE

Jul. 24, 2012

Editorial welcomes $60 million in sanctions levied by the NCAA against Penn State for its failure to curb predatory sexual behavior by former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky. MORE

Jul. 24, 2012

Joe Nocera Op-Ed column praises the NCAA for acting quickly to levy substantial sanctions against Pennsylvania State for enabling Jerry Sandusky's continued sexual abuse of children; expresses hope that the school, which has always placed football over academics, may finally gain a more balanced perspective. MORE

Jul. 23, 2012

NCAA announces that it will punish the Penn State football program in the wake of the child sex-abuse scandal involving former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky; the announcement comes as a statue of the former football coach Joe Paterno is removed from outside Beaver Stadium. MORE

Jul. 22, 2012

Maureen Dowd Op-Ed column questions whether Penn State's decision to tear down Joe Paterno's statue, due to his covering up the sex crimes of former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky, is appropriate; proposes an alternative solution. MORE

Jul. 18, 2012

Ta-Nehisi Coates Op-Ed column contends movement to remove statue of former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno from the university's campus, after revelations that he had done nothing after being informed that assistant coach Jerry Sandusky had sexually abused children, is misguided; calls for statue to remain as a reminder that others were complicit in Sandusky's crimes. MORE

Jul. 14, 2012

Penn State football coach Joe Paterno began negotiating with his superiors to amend his contract in January 2011, the same month he testified before a grand jury about Jerry Sandusky; the timing was something of a surprise because the contract was not set to expire until the end of the 2011 season; details of Paterno and his family’s fight for money seem to deepen one of the lasting truths of the Sandusky scandal: the significant power that Paterno exerted on Penn State, its officials, its alumni and its purse strings. MORE

Jul. 14, 2012

Penn State’s board of trustees meets to evaluate the recommendations in Louis J Freeh's blistering report on the Jerry Sandusky scandal. MORE

Jul. 13, 2012

Louis J Freeh, former federal judge and director of the FBI who spent the last seven months examining the Jerry Sandusky scandal at Penn State, issues a damning conclusion, saying that senior officials at the university had worked together to actively conceal Sandusky's assaults on young boys; reports they did so out of fear of bad publicity for the football team and legendary coach Joe Paterno; investigation makes it clear it was Paterno, who persuaded the university president and others not to report Sandusky to the authorities in 2001. MORE

Jul. 13, 2012

Editorial contends that the conclusions of the exhaustive investigation by former federal judge and FBI director Louis J Freeh into the Penn State University's cover-up of serial sex crimes by Jerry Sandusky should have legal consequences. MORE

Jul. 13, 2012

News that Joe Paterno knew as early as 1998 of concerns about Jerry Sandusky's inappropriate behavior stuns even Paerno's ardent supports. MORE

Jul. 13, 2012

Former FBI director Louis J Freeh's investigation of the scandal at Penn State University finds failures at every level of hierarchy, from university staff to the board of trustees; experts say the findings have implications for universities across the country, particularly those where popular sports programs can take on outsize influence. MORE

Jul. 11, 2012

Family of Joe Paterno questions the integrity of report on Penn State's role in the child abuse case involving former football assistant Jerry Sandusky; says their viewpoint is not be properly reflected, since they were not allowed to review the findings. MORE

Jul. 9, 2012

Editorial expresses hope that the criminal convictions of Jerry Sandusky and Msgr William Lynn in child sex abuse cases will provide the impetus for new accountability and deterrence; contends that existing laws, particularly those governing the statute of limitations for filing sex abuse complaints, need to be recalibrated to encourage reporting of abuse and fairness for victims. MORE

Jul. 1, 2012

E-mail correspondence among senior Penn State officials suggests that football coach Joe Paterno played a greater role that previously known in influencing the university's decision not to formally report child sex abuse accusations against Jerry Sandusky. MORE

Jun. 29, 2012

Penn State University asks the victims of Jerry Sandusky to participate in a private meeting to try to resolve legal claims. MORE

Jun. 24, 2012

Records and interviews suggest Matt Sandusky’s story is a complicated and painful one, with some nightmarish scenes from life with his adoptive father Jerry Sandusky. MORE

Jun. 24, 2012

Jurors in the Jerry Sandusky case say there was little debate and even less doubt in the jury room about his guilt. MORE

Jun. 23, 2012

Jerry Sandusky, a former Penn State assistant football coach, is convicted of sexually abusing 10 young boys; verdict completes the downfall of a onetime local hero in a scandal that shook a proud Pennsylvania community, a prominent American university and the world of major college football: many of the charges, which include rape and sodomy, carry significant prison terms, and it seems likely that Sandusky will spend the rest of his life behind bars. MORE

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The federal judge Yvette Kane gave the N.C.A.A. and Pennsylvania officials a month to try to work out a possible settlement of a lawsuit over the penalties Penn State is paying for mishandling the Jerry Sandusky child molestation scandal.